Android App Development: In-App Purchasing

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7/20/2018

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9/8/2017

After you've finished developing your app, you're ready to reap the financial benefits of your work. In this course, learn about the Google Play In-app Billing API, and how to use it effectively to sell digital products within your app. Instructor Albert Lo kicks off the course by explaining how to set up your existing app for in-app purchases by modifying the UI. Next, he acquaints you with the Gradle build system, and shows how to leverage it to support in-app purchases. Albert then provides an overview of the billing process, and shows how to define your digital products, and use the Google in-app library to query purchased items, launch the purchase flow from both one-time purchases and subscriptions, and handle responses.

Skill Level Intermediate

2h 5m

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- [Instructor] You have just finished developing your appand now you've decided that you want it to make some money.Knowing how to use the Google Play consoleand corresponding API's correctly is crucialto being able to monetize digital products within your app.Hi, I'm Albert Lo.I've been developing for the Android platform nativelyfor over five years and some of the published appsthat I've worked on have billions of users.In this course, I'll help you learnhow to sell digital products within your app.

We'll start by learning how to modifyour existing app UI to set up for in-app purchases.Next, we will learn how to use the Gradle build systemeffectively to support in-app purchases.We'll also learn how to use the Play consoleto define our digital products, set up test users,and distribute our app to alpha test users.We'll explore code obfuscation, multiple build variants,the alpha channel in the Google Play console,and also create our own gatewayto talk to the in-app billing library.